Top 100 Best Freeware for Windows

We have compiled 100 freeware in various categories for Windows OS that we think will be helpful for you. This list is not comprehensive or authoritative by any means.

However this list has enough freeware for you to play around and pick the one that is suitable your specific usage scenario.
If you think we’ve forgotten to include your favorite Windows free software, or if you think any of the freeware mentioned here should not be in the list for some reason, leave your comment.

We’ll be updating this page frequently based on your feedback. Please bookmark this page to review the latest list from time to time.

Audio and Video:

Audacity – Open source software for audio recording and editing. With this audio editor, you can record live audio and change the pitch of recording.

CamStudio – This can record the video and audio activity on your computer. This has an user friendly interface and you can record AVI or SWF video of your computer screen.

XBMC Media Center – Open source application that can play almost all audio and video formats, even files inside ZIP and RAR archives.

Debut Video Capture – This Lets you capture video files directly on your computer using a webcam or external devices. It can also record screen activity or streaming video.

Avidemux – Open source video editor. It is compatible with various video formats including AVI, MPEG, DVD and audio formats including MP3, AAC, WAV, etc.

VirtualDub – Performs trimming and cleaning up of videos. It also includes batch-processing functionality for processing a large number of files.

Nero Kwik Media – Burns and copies all your music, videos or data to a CD, DVD or blu-ray disc. This can also act as a media library.

The 100 Best Freeware for Windows is a very useful guide. Reading it i can across several useful applications that I had not heard about. Thanks for sharing your proposals.

While clearly you cannot cover everything within your 100 recommendations i think you are missing an important segment – namely desktop searching: for files. folders and file content. What Windows offers in this area is too limited in several different ways. Un addition it would be useful to add at least one entry for the category – Alternative File Managers – because in this area as well what Windows offers is too limited. I will certainly keep you guide to hand and search your site from time to time looking for innivative and interesting freeware.

FolderSize excellent for seeing how much space files take up right click in explorer

IMAPSize excellent for seeing how much space emails take up

DPWIPER excellent shredding utility up to x35 gutman

Smallpdf.com (online pdf converter – converts from pdf to other files, also reduces pdf sizes sometimes up to 400%!)

MagicDisk excellent for converting to iso files to burn on cd or use for virtual disks (can use mirror image of cd install as a drive letter then can install application / use disk as if it were in your DVD drive)

MagicISO creates iso files

Snaplinks plus (for firefox – have similar for Chrome) excellent can right-click/drag to open lots of links at once (or save to text file)